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Please don't get mad. Retired, and I've done well in stocks under our last President also. Under the 2007-08 crash my colleague showed me what he was worried about before our market crash and showed me how to transfer my holdings. Long story short I wasn't hurt like most people. My friend and colleague has passed on since then. The biggest threat since the crash is greed and people selling stocks on their advice coming from the clueless and sites that charge you everytime you make a change in your holdings, and fees associated that are hidden from you.
Here's some facts you may find interesting. I'm a proud democrat as long as I don't see Nancy Pelosi's idiotic antics.

"Thanks to Obamanomics the US economy is plodding through the worst recovery in decades.
The Wall Street Journal reported:

The economic expansion—already the worst on record since World War II—is weaker than previously thought, according to newly revised data.

From 2012 through 2014, the economy grew at an all-too-familiar rate of 2% annually, according to three years of revised figures the Commerce Department released Thursday. That’s a 0.3 percentage point downgrade from prior estimates.

The revisions were released concurrently with the government’s first estimate of second-quarter output.

Since the recession ended in June 2009, the economy has advanced at a 2.2% annual pace through the end of last year. That’s more than a half-percentage point worse than the next-weakest expansion of the past 70 years, the one from 2001 through 2007. While there have been highs and lows in individual quarters, overall the economy has failed to break out of its roughly 2% pattern for six years.

It’s even worse than we thought.
Obama looks even worse, ranking dead last among all presidents since 1932 – over 80 years.
The Daily Caller reported:

Over the first five years of Obama’s presidency, the U.S. economy grew more slowly than during any five-year period since just after the end of World War II, averaging less than 1.3 percent per year. If we leave out the sharp recession of 1945-46 following World War II, Obama looks even worse, ranking dead last among all presidents since 1932. No other president since the Great Depression has presided over such a steadily poor rate of economic growth during his first five years in office. This slow growth should not be a surprise in light of the policies this administration has pursued.

An economy usually grows rapidly in the years immediately following a recession. As Peter Ferrera points out in Forbes, the U.S. economy has not even reached its long run average rate of growth of 3.3 percent; the highest annual growth rate since Obama took office was 2.8 percent. Total growth in real GDP over the 19 quarters of economic recovery since the second quarter of 2009 has been 10.2 percent. Growth over the same length of time during previous post-World War II recoveries has ranged from 15.1 percent during George W. Bush’s presidency to 30 percent during the recovery that began when John F. Kennedy was elected."

Facts don't lie, feel free to tweak anything you want, but facts are facts
The way to win America's people is through the economy, even this blowhard can do that, if someone were to cut off his thumbs would be even a sweeter deal.
Wouldn't it be grand if the American people stood together as one, instead of acting like the children in Congress fighting against each other?

In the picture, snapped in the darkness of a Wilton vineyard, Jack Kautz crouches behind a dead buck, smiling broadly as he holds up the animal’s head by its freakishly large set of antlers.

It was a buck for the record books – with sprawling antlers about an arm’s width apart. If Kautz, 52, had been able to claim it as an official trophy, he could have added it to his long list of accomplishments detailed on the website of his family’s Lodi grape growing business, Ironstone Vineyards.

We need to remember that the stock market is not the economy, although there are obvious effects on each. Perhaps we might agree this was an over exuberant market and a correction was in order. Based on the numbers this morning, it seems buyers and sellers were confident with ~24,000. Let's hope so for our 401Ks.